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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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Dark Profound Root
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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Littles Magazine Reading
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
Frederick Douglas’s agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it’s spilt over for women’s rights; it’s split over for worker’s rights and so forth.
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Country People Rights
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism
I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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Believe Christian Intellectual
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
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Book Miss People
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that’s fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
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Believe Brother Gay
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn

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